Anne-Karin Furunes (born 1961 in Trondheim) is a Norwegian artist who has developed her own original perforation technique. Her works are acrylic paintings on canvas, with the image formed by hundreds and thousands of holes of different size. The works are based on photographs according to which Furunes perforates the canvas in a freehand manner. The artist often works with archive photographs, which almost always are of literary content of a political and historical nature, e.g. deported Norwegian Jews or archive pictures from a racial studies institute in Sweden.

Pertti Kekarainen's (born 1965 in Finland) works are characterized by the multi-interpretative nature of space. He combines his photographs with local elements of colour that sometimes appear to conform to the space presented in the piece and are sometimes contrary to it. These features create tension and a slightly surreal atmosphere. In terms of atmosphere, these works approach painting, its ability to create illusions of space and visual ambiguity.

Matti Kujasalo (born 1946 in Finland) has been working consistently in concrete art over thirty years. He is one of the most important systematic constructivists in Finland and the only one with a poetic quality. The artist has developed a very specific system yet he continuously finds new areas of freedom within the self-imposed boundaries. With the usual reduction down to few colours Kujasalo achieves a surprising richness of form and variety in his compositions. The works engage the viewer’s gaze and provoke his imagination.

Antti Laitinen (born 1975 in Finland) makes photographs, videos and performances, constructs islands and conceptual objects, digs and documents, and rows with icebergs. He is a latter-day reflection of the Elonkorjaajat (Harvesters) artist group of the 1970s. Hardly any technique is unknown to him. But Laitinen's works aren't freewheeling semi-hippie association, and are instead planned in detail, carefully considered and executed, and formally sound.

Jorma Puranen’s (born 1951) conceptually intriguing works address the questions of history and representation through innovative visual methods. In his series of works entitled "Icy Prospects", Jorma Puranen paints a piece of wooden board with black, glossy alkyd paint, takes it outdoors in winter and photographs the fragmentary reflection of nature on the surface of the board. The result is a series of extremely painterly, painting-like, works, in which the brushstrokes and the uneven features of the board are mixed with the reflected subject. These works are also images studying the picturesque, the sublime and the mysterious – the way of looking at the landscape.

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